best retirement stocks

From a Kiplinger article titled 20 best retirement stocks to buy in 2020

These are stocks with relative good dividends plus a history of dividend growth

Among those that caught my eye:

Stock                           Yield  Growth streak
Flowers Food (FLO)               3.5%     17 years
Realty Income (O)                3.6%     30 years
National Retail Properties (NNN) 3.7%     30 years
Verizon (VZ)                     4.1%     13 years
Duke Energy (DUK)                4.3%     15 years
Dominion Energy (D)              4.5%     16 years
Telus (TU)                       4.7%     17 years
Exxon Mobil (XOM)                5.1%     37 years
W.P. Carey (WPC)                 5.1%     20 years
Oneok (OKE)                      5.2%     17 years
National Health Investors        5.2%     10 years
AT&T (T)                         5.4%     35 years